TurboTeam™ Tools for Team Leaders

Solve People-Side Problems & Build High-Performing Teams

Simple, collaborative, interactive tools guide the team to work together to solve difficult people-side problems.

Using our tools the team improves its effectiveness and makes better decisions. Teams break through churn, manage stakeholders better, become better influencers, balance strategy with execution and think through unanticipated consequences.

Do Managers Want to Know About the Brain?

by Anne Pauker Kreitzberg

Managers are business-focused - not psychologists. But there are things that managers can learn about how the brain works that would help them become better at managing people. Australian consultant Linda Ray has produced a brief video packed with suggestions that stem from neuro-science.

Shoot from the Hip or Think it Through?

by Charles B. Kreitzberg

Rash decision-making is so common, that it led to the idiom of “shooting from the hip.” It comes from the idea of firing a pistol as it is removed from the holster without taking the time to raise and aim it. It’s fast but inaccurate.

Shooting from the hip looks great in the movies but is a risky way to make business decisions.

But while it seems obvious that understanding is essential to getting to good decisions, you may be subject to pushback when you try to do it. In this blog post, I explain three of the arguments frequently leveled against thinking the problem through.

What We Do

Research reveals that most projects fail to achieve their initial vision.

Why does this happen?

Much of the problem comes from poor communication, ineffective decision-making and the team's inability to adjust and realign around shifting demands.

We build tools that empower teams to solve these people-side problems and operate as high-performing team,

We are not "traditional team-building" which is based on understanding personal style and building trust. Instead, all of our tools are based on Agile Critical Thinking.

We provide teams with simple but powerful interactive tools that guide them to think through problems and respond effectively. As the team solves the problems that inevitably crop up, they learn new ways of working together that build

Our tools and techniques are based on years of studying teams and what they need to excel.

We believe our breakthrough approach is revolutionary. Please take a look and decide for yourself.

Information Overload, Knowledge Drought

Agile Thinkers value data. They know that facts outrank opinions. They also know that we rarely have all the information we would like. Sometimes it's not available. Sometimes it conflicts.

Not all information is equally valid. Especially in the internet age, there is a lot of shoddy thinking, innuendo, opinion and outright lies, presented as if it were clear fact. It's easy to get fooled.

Agile Thinkers evaluate the information they encounter. They ask "how do you know?" They see if different sources have come to the same conclusions and report the same facts.

Agile Thinkers are skeptical. They don't accept information uncritically but decide how much to rely on information they encounter.

A Matter of Perspective

Agile Thinkers look at a problem from multiple perspectives. They talk with people who have varied points of view. They probe to learn how people came to their conclusions.

Looking at a situation from multiple perspectives also reveals biases and assumptions -- both others and our own. We can more easily see when a particular point of view is being pushed. Taking this into account helps Agile Thinkers detect spin and resist persuasion.

What 's an Agile Thinker?

Agile Thinkers are people who have learned how to assess a situation accurately and deeply. They value facts but also know that complete information is rarely available. They know that politics, culture and emotion are part of every human situation and take it into account as they make judgements.

Agile Thinkers understand that situations are dynamic and change rapidly. New information becomes available and old information is reassessed, That's where agility pays off.

They realize that persuasion and deception are common and they don't accept information at face value. Agile Thinkers are hard to fool. They are also alert to their own biases and limitations.

Everyone has the ability to improve their Agile Thinking skills. Helping people become better Agile Thinkers is our mission.

Why Agile Thinkers are Winners

Agile Thinkers are people who have learned how to assess a situation accurately and deeply. They value facts but also know that complete information is rarely available. They know that politics, culture and emotion are part of every human situation and take it into account as they make judgements.

Agile Thinkers understand that situations are dynamic and change rapidly. New information becomes available and old information is reassessed, That's where agility pays off.

They realize that persuasion and deception are common and they don't accept information at face value. Agile Thinkers are hard to fool. They are also alert to their own biases and limitations.

Everyone has the ability to improve their Agile Thinking skills. Helping people become better Agile Thinkers is our mission.